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Constructing Female Terrorism - Ariane Bogain, Leonie B. Jackson

Constructing Female Terrorism

Gender, Political Violence and National Identity in Britain and France Since 1952
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2026
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-896-2 (ISBN)
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A critical examination of UK and French media’s representation of politically violent women, which shines fresh light on the construction of national gender identities.
News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naïve and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm and de-feminized as monsters. By diminishing their agency, the challenge that women’s violence poses to the gendered national order is contained.



Drawing on five comparative case studies spanning more than 70 years of militant campaigns against the UK and France, this book interrogates how media representations of politically violent women are shaped by gender, race, religion, class and geography. It considers how women’s political violence is framed, what influences these portrayals, and what ideological work they perform. In answering these questions, the book reveals how these representations operate as a battleground where the nation’s gendered boundaries are defined and defended, and the national order is reproduced.

Ariane Bogain is Senior Lecturer in French and Politics at Northumbria University. Her research critically investigates the terrorism discourse in France, focusing on legitimisation of counter-terrorism measures by state authorities, the construction of national identity as a reaction to terrorist attacks, and the role of gender in the construction of French men and women who joined ISIS. Leonie B. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Northumbria University. She is the author of What is Counterterrorism For? (2024), The Monstrous and the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides (2021) and Islamophobia in Britain: The Making of a Muslim Enemy (2018).

Introduction



1. Decolonization campaigns: the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau) 1952–60 and Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) 1954–62



2. Separatist political violence: the Provisional IRA 1969–97 and the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) 1976–present



3. Leftist political violence: women of the Angry Brigade (1970–72) and Action Directe (1979–87)



4. Jihadist political violence: post-2001 jihadist campaigns in the UK and France



6. Ultra-right political violence in the UK and France in the twenty-first century



6. At the border of order



Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.4.2026
Verlagsort Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-78821-896-5 / 1788218965
ISBN-13 978-1-78821-896-2 / 9781788218962
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